Another Iain

(Wondering if I can save this gif with my Alt text "A man wobbling about on a tightrope high above water thinking 'at least I'm not doing something as dangerous as making a deadpan supposed joke on Bluesky'.", because I feel like I might have need of it again sometime.)

a man is jumping over a waterfall while holding a frisbee . Alt: A man wobbling about on a tightrope high above water thinking 'at least I'm not doing something as dangerous as making a deadpan supposed joke on Bluesky'.

I mean, it's nice that they know who to thank for their railway network, right?...

I took her for the proprietor of a ladies' seminary.

(Proprietrix?)

Fond memories of working at NTL, woman rang up screaming at me. Her husband in background shouts at her, “don’t talk to them like that. They’re on fuck all”

Then he takes phone off her, and gives me a line which I have used myself since

“Do you have a manager you dislike intensely I can speak to?”

I have accidentally discovered that if I touch and hold a Bluesky hashtag on my phone it gives me options, including the option of muting that hashtag. This is something excellent which I expect to make prodigious use of in the future.

I heard the minx remark she'd meet him after dark inside St James's Park and give him one.

(I am also reminded of our school production of Iolanthe, and my schoolmates in it, among them some lovely people with lovely voices who have gone. Good memories, though.)

YouTube video by Square-on-Wheels "Invocation," "LEGOlanthe"

I saw the ever-reliable Charles Court Opera doing Iolanthe justice this evening. The fairies summoning Iolanthe from her exile remains the only piece of music virtually guaranteed to send a shiver up my spine whenever I hear it. Even in Legolanthe form: www.youtube.com/shorts/8Mbbg...

She was gorgeous, she was charming, she was perfect in every way. Except she was always using the word 'infer' when she obviously meant 'imply' - and I know some guys will put up with that kind of thing, but frankly I can't imagine why.

Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) by Eurythmics is a perfect song, except for the grating fact that in order to make that first title line approximately rhyme with 'Who am I to disagree' Annie Lennox has to pronounce 'this' in the style of a comedy Mexican. #sweetdreamsaremadeofthees

That's the start of a lovely love song, surely.

"Angeline from Parson's Green
Grows her own potatoes."

I've got one foot on the platform, the other on the train.

Morris Folk Club tonight!

There's nothing weirder than encountering one of your former ancient school-teachers in your 20s and discovering that not only are they not dead but they look a lot younger than they did when they taught you. Possibly because they're no longer teaching children like you.

The replies to this are all 100% top notch funny, if that’s what you need rn

Me and my gal and my gal's son, we got met with a tear-gas bomb, I don't even know why we come, going back where we come from.

I read a BBC article about the responses to the bafta incident this afternoon, and thought 'none of you people have seen the film, have you?'

there's a nugget here which helps to explain Brown's character and why he was so incensed by the allegations against Mandelson from their time in office

That's the song that came unbidden to me this morning, I'm afraid; sorry, I don't make the rules.

I mean, I do literally make the rules, but if I don't stick to them it's almost as if the whole thing is meaningless and pointless, isn't it?

Abra, abracadabra, I want to reach out and grab ya.

So far The Napoleon Of Notting Hill has been mostly author thoughts ventriloquised and then tedious foolery, but on we go.

They should bring back the Jenny Laird Award and add it to the Oscars while they’re at it.

A, E, A, E, I, O, U, U, and sometimes Y.

Darkness falls across the land. The midnight hour is close at hand.

two men standing next to each other with a caption that says " remember when i told you we 're not so different Alt: two men standing next to each other with a caption that says " remember when i told you we 're not so different

An equally darling friend was round on Thursday and left us with eight cans of Brewdog left over from her wedding. 👍

For every bear that ever there was is gathered there together because.

Started The Napoleon Of Notting Hill today.

First line:
"The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has".

GKC, 1904. Hope the rest of it lives up to that beginning.

Yes. He'd have got points off in the UK if he /had/ used a capital letter after a colon.

I imagine some of their chat-up lines could be considered criminal.

I think it more likely maps on to when we accepted we weren't going to be very successful in international tournaments, and took the attitude of "We're here for a good time, not a long time."